Much larger than Eagle Ford and once thought to have reached peak production, new technology has brought us full circle back to the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, where the recent shift to horizontal well drilling has rendered this play the u

The results are finally in for this year's European Solar Decathlon competition. The Rhome for denCity project, by Italy's Team Rhome, has been declared the overall competition winner, while second and third..

We track US power consumption on a weekly basis as reported by Barron's, as we believe this information provides insightful – albeit sometimes "noisy" and seasonally unadjusted – clues about the performance of the economy over time.

Born in South Dakota, Fred was a young, 28-year-old geologist when he went to work for the Standard Oil Company of California. In 1930, the company sent him to the Persian Gulf, where he recommended they begin drilling a test well on Bahrain.
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Tres Amigas, LLC will unite the nation's electric grid. Utilizing the latest advances in power grid technology, Tres Amigas is focused on providing the first common interconnection of America's three power grids...

There is growing evidence that birds flying in the vicinity of a solar thermal power project in California's Mojave Desert are being injured and even killed either by the solar heat that's focused with mirrors on its three energy-collecting towers, o

New York's cities and towns can block hydraulic fracturing within their borders, the state's highest court ruled, dealing a blow to an industry awaiting Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision on whether to lift a six-year-old statewide moratorium.

Right now, the cost of such systems — about $0.22/kWh is only competitive with retail electricity in Hawaii — the cost of vanilla electricity in California is $0.15/kWh. Barclays says Tesla has single-handedly brought down the cost of batteries over

A little over a month ago, when Russia announced the much anticipated "Holy Grail" energy deal with China, some were disappointed that despite this symbolic agreement meant to break the petrodollar's stranglehold on the rest of the world, neither Rus

A breakthrough in the production of solar cells will make the next generation of solar panels cheaper and safer, and promises to accelerate the development of solar energy over the next decade, scientists said.